Sentence examples for stakes running from inspiring English sources

With stakes running into tens of thousands on the table, Mizner said, "I can't bear to spend Christmas in New York.

He was a prodigious gambler, and one business associate recalls seeing him in Cannes, playing four roulette tables at once for stakes running into thousands of pounds, while also paying court to an attractive young woman.

They acknowledge that families are most prone to heated debate, with emotional stakes running considerably higher in close relationships than among casual acquaintances.

These guys are proactive lobbyists in the death stakes, running very melancholic awareness workshops with snappy sadcore titles like "You Only Die Once," and hosting bizarre parties with celebrity DJs.

These guys are proactive lobbyists in the death stakes, running very melancholic awareness workshops with snappy sadcore titles like "You Only Die Once", and hosting bizarre parties that people like Jordan from Rizzle Kicks DJ at.

There are five other graded stakes running that day that will qualify their winners for a spot in their Breeders' Cup division - the $500,000G11 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational, the $500,000G11 Flower Bowl Invitational for fillies and mares on the turf, the $350,000 Beldame Invitational for fillies and mares, the $350,000 Vosburgh Invitational for sprinters, and the $200,000 Grade 2 Kelso.

The Travers Stakes, run each year on the last Saturday in August, is the oldest stakes race in America.

The New Yorker, June 28 , 1969P. 84 An account of the Queen's Plate Stakes run off at the Woodbine track.

But in the Rebel Stakes, run on March 14th, Old Fashioned was caught in the stretch and passed by a fifty-six-to-one long shot called Win Willy.

Then he won the Swaps Stakes, ran third in the Haskell and sixth in the Super Derby -- and was finished for the year.

By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, June 28 , 1969P. 84 An account of the Queen's Plate Stakes run off at the Woodbine track.